the original got flagged with no way to appeal it when every contributor is deactivated but I will never let this post die. it's monday and we are getting on it cunts
That one clip of Brennan Lee Mulligan in game changer saying "I can set my own standard for what success looks like, and it always looks like trying your best" has done more for me than therapy ever has
doodles from the sitcom au fic series, ft zamrose from kiss her, you fool!, hanmape from true love and understanding, and zampicc from Duel Wielding (pov: you’re derapchu)
Hey so like. what if I posted two disconnected scenes from a 'Cleo is a sentient and otherwise fine zombie in the middle of a zombie apocalypse w a commune full of their polycule" au that me and @sleepygraycat started talking about. what then.
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“Show yourself!”
“It’s me, Etho,” False called up, blocking the bright spotlight from her eyes, She held up the bag of goodies in her other hand; medical supplies, a box of twinkies that by some miracle hadn’t spoiled [did they spoil?], ammunition. Ammunition was getting hard to come by, but there was also a group nearby learning to make bullets. She pulled the bag back close to her as the gate cracked open enough for her to slip in.
It was quiet in the commune. Late at night, only Etho and Jevin up on watch. And False, understandably. She’d been away for a few days, having to trudge just outside their usual reach. Things were starting to get picked clean. A sheep in a far pasture baa’d. She flinched with Etho dropped down in front of her, tilting his head slightly.
“You’ve got some uh, bleeding. There,” he said, gesturing to her arm. False looked down at it and scoffed.
“You’ll never guess – broken glass on a door. Got caught on it as I was leaving.”
“Right. And it wasn’t, say, people wielding machetes that still live in the city?”
False frowned at him and smacked the bag into his chest. He gave her a knowing smile but used it as an opportunity to swipe a twinkie.
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“Sometimes I wonder if any of this is real,” Cleo said, fixing one of the fingerless gloves they’d swiped from Joe earlier. The bright green of it, even dirty, made the green of their skin stand out so much more. False huffed.
“What do you mean?” she asked, adjusting so that her head rested in the crook of Cleo’s shoulder. The sun was dull today, not that it particularly mattered. It didn’t seem to really affect Cleo, or any zombies unfortunately.
“If a commune full of people who I love, and who love me, and who love each other is just some sort of zombie fever dream and I’ve actually eaten off your face.” The hand dropped down into the grass beside them and for half a moment, False was worried it had detached. She stretched her head and relief filled her at not needing to sew it back on.
“Well, I don’t know, I feel pretty real myself.” She leaned her head closer to Cleo, though her vision was elsewhere. Bdubs was building a new coop for the chickens. They had chickens.
“Sometimes I’m worried something in me is going to break. Is that…not something you worry about?”
“…I think whatever was in me that was going to break broke a long time ago.”
HAPPY TO, BELOVED ANON - So @pebbltree and I have been just. Rotating them so hard. And. AUGH. OKAY SO there's. I wont lie to you not a lot of canon moments for these two but that has. Truly never stopped me. False is scared of Cleo like Etho is but she doesn't vocalize it really - In the S6 prank war they were on opposite side and False really went for Cleo during the fight. Frankly I need to watch all of Cleo and False's videos and try to find all of the times they're together because like they HAVE been, enough so that the Zombiesymmetry [idk if thats the actual tag people are using it not so uh. God bless.] tag on ao3 has 51 fanfics, so, like, it's a rarepair but certainly not the rarest in terms of this fandom.
We've been rotating a hypothetical 'False gets more involved in the rebellion during the king arc' since False was on the rebel side during the labyrinth, and then also like, False and Cleo dealing with her like split version of herself on empires. Laying in the grass, crying into Cleo as she confesses everything she did. Being a formidable foe for King Ren during the king arc. They're in lesbians together.
Also from what ive seen they were on opposite sides of the mycellium war in s7 [<- has not seen s7 yet] so like. I'm sure when I watch that I will have gay to rotate.
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